Stepping up to Save the Planet: Moving on to Corporate Social Engagement

Nov 7, 2010

Why should corporations maximize the common good, rather than just making sure they do no harm? Is it a moral imperative? A business imperative? Our civilization’s central organizing project is to transform our adverse impact on the climate system. Scientists tell us that

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Climate change happens to other people, other places

Oct 27, 2010

As a topic, climate change is everywhere. More truly, it has been tossed about with such abandon that, one fears, mostly what remains is the coinage – almost skeletal and bereft of much utilitarian significance. Admittedly, the common man – as you and

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A cycling India: To carve an alternative growth trail

Oct 19, 2010

By no means should it seem amazing – that bicycle ownership (30″50 per cent) in Indian cities is much higher than ownership of cars (3″13 per cent) and two-wheelers. Bicycle use in India varies from 7″15 per cent in    large cities to

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Our roads, our cows, and us.

Sep 30, 2010

The grandeur of the sight is compelling. An under-construction flyover – some three kilometres in length”overlooking a sea of human beings, cars, motorbikes, buses, mini trucks, scooters, cycle rickshaws, bicycles, carts, animals – all bravely navigating the crests and troughs of what can

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Unless you reach out to people at the lowest rung, development cannot happen.

Sep 27, 2010

This conversation almost did not happen. In what can be termed as a role reversal, the interviewee, Krishan Pal Gurjar, president of BJP Haryana and MLA from Tigaon, had to wait for over an hour for the CauseBecause team, delayed by the most

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We are but resigned to corruption

Aug 19, 2010

Corruption, that very dreaded word, is firmly back in the spotlight on the Indian firmament. This time, credit goes to the Commonwealth Games-centric wheeling-dealing encompassing crores of rupees and a stupendous dose of the ludicrous. As inexplicable money trails stand exposed, the deal,

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There is a little bit of CSR in my hair!

Aug 8, 2010

If I am to simplify all of life with a perspective that is distinctly marketing-oriented, there are just two types of people in the world ” a small set of marketing people on one side, and a whole large set of people being

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Carrying and being carried

Carrying and being carried

Jul 28, 2010

Are you being carried, or are you carrying others? To know the answer to that question, bear with me while I take you on a short mental journey through the emerging landscape of ‘ethical business’ and to the stories at the end of

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Civic non-sense

Jul 13, 2010

[dropcap size=big]L[/dropcap]et’s accept it straightaway. We do not have the instinct  for it. We brush away any thought of maintaining civic decorum with the thought  that we are but a speck in the expanse of endlessly dirty, crowded, messy  streets, backyards and frontyards,

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Oh, happiness.

Jul 4, 2010

[dropcap size=big]C[/dropcap]onsidering how we spend our entire lives in the dogged  pursuit of happiness, how come the polities of nations have neglected this  aspect? This is as startling as, perhaps, the full stop after the heading of  this piece. The delight that an

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